EHOME Wins The Bucharest Minor

Both Gambit and EHOME rolled through their competition, both topping out in their groups and didn't drop a game in the bracket stage until they faced each other. EHOME looked by far the strongest out of the competition, dropping only 1 game (11-1) throughout the event. TI champions, Team OG, currently functioning with a stand-in, ILTW, flamed out early with two consecutive losses to Gambit and NiP.

It'll be a short turnaround for EHOME, who will have a week break before the upcoming Chongqing Major. With the addition of EHOME, China will have four teams representing the region.

Valve Targets Matchmaking Abuse

Today we reset roughly 17,000 accounts that were found to be abusing matchmaking to get into ranked. These techniques were mostly used by smurfs or account buyers.

For the new year, Valve is making moves to target matchmaking abuse in Dota. In their year in review post, they mentioned releasing CS:GO's Trusted Matchmaking system across all games. Similar to behavior score, your trust score, however, is connected your account, rather than just your Dota activity. The move is a step in the right direction toward managing smurfs and account buyers, whose participation in games can essentially waste the time of 9 other players.

True Sight Releases Today

Nearly half a year after Team OG won TI8, Valve will release the True Sight film, offering a behind the scenes look in the grand final series between OG and PSG.LGD. The event in Copenhagen will be streamed live here, with a live Q&A with the champions afterward.

Not all smurfs are created equal. I don't think they can just start banning an excessive amount of accounts... As there will be people's real accounts being deleted by accident. They can only throw out the most blatant bunch... But it is a step in the right direction and we will all be better for it. Thank you Valve for doing the leg work on this.

I also want valve to remove all the smurf and the cheaters, but I also understand that valve need to do things step by step so they can distinguish between real accounts and smurfs.

My friends was legend 1 but recently he improved so much that I think he is worthy playing at Ancient 1 bracket, but I once try to borrow his account and played 1 game. It was a super hard game because the enemy plays invoker like in my bracket and stomped my teammates, I was using support so I cant do much that game.

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